History, Memory, Performance [electronic resource] /
Dean, D.editor.
Meerzon, Y.editor.
Prince, K.editor.
History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts. At its core are contributions from theatre scholars and public historians discussing how historical meaning is shaped through performance.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Discursive Practices and Narrative Models:; 2 Performing Pasts for Present Purposes:; 3 Minding the Gap:; 4 Un/becoming Nomad: Marc Lescarbot, Movement, and Metamorphosis in Les Muses de la Nouvelle France; 5 Group Biography, Montage, and Modern Women in Hooligans and Building Jerusalem; 6 Alexander Pushkin's Boris Godunov as Epic Theatre; 7 Shakespeare Inside Out: Hamlet as Intertext in the USSR 1934-43
8 Raoul Wallenberg on Stage - or at Stake?9 Staging Auschwitz, Making Witnesses:; 10 Real Archive, Contested Memory, Fake History:; 11 Performing Collective Trauma:; 12 Contemporary Brazilian Theatre:; 13 Bent and the Staging of the Queer Holocaust Experience; 14 Partners in Conversation:; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts. At its core are contributions from theatre scholars and public historians discussing how historical meaning is shaped through performance.
Performing arts.
Theater—History.
Arts.
Theater.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.